So, I watched The German Woman yesterday. Seems to be a great start for a series - and, oh my, what a hottie the lead is!

Kidding aside, I did something I had never done the many times I've watched it. When Foyle is reading about Milner in the paper, " Our Trondheim Hero," I paused the frame and read the article.

It starts out very well telling about former police sergeant Paul Milner and all then it segues into a description of an airplane wreck, and then, at the very end, it tells that Cpl Milner will soon take three weeks leave with his wife and baby son.

(sorry I can't post it here - if I managed the screen shot, I would fail miserably on the photobucket part)

I suppose since TGW was the pilot, Milner's back story was still in flux and the props department just cobbled something together. I'm certainly glad the the Milner's unhappy marriage was childless.

I enjoy finding these little tidbits. Take a look for yourself if you like that sort of thing - a perfect excuse to rewatch TGW again. (redundancy intentional, as many times as we've watched them...)

I noticed this as well on a rewatch! My theory is that the props department found an actual article about someone wounded at Trondheim and edited in the right name and the picture of Anthony Howell. The article also alludes to Milner singing in the hospital choir, which is not something he looks up to doing when Foyle comes to see him, so I think it's a case of the audience not being expected to have the time (or *cough* focus) to read the full text rather than the story being in flux... but who can say?

Don't know if this is still true, but a lot of show creators and producers have filmed scenes without the knowledge that digital media and pausing the player picks up all. (It's especially fun to see old shows and stock shots of the characters that are often from the wrong season. I watch the American show "Emergency!" and one of the characters had a mustache during the second half of the series run. But yep, when they're running for the trucks, you see him sans mustache.

Hazeleyes recently cited a perfect example of this, and it's even from a show featuring MK--this is the newspaper article shown during the "Runner" episode of The Professionals that supposedly gives the low-down on the death of Duffy's (MK) younger brother. If you'll recall, Doyle (Martin Shaw) had shot him during a crime investigation, and Duffy is out for revenge.

hazeleyes57 wrote:Curious to me is why the French police file displayed is in English on a cop's computer in Sweden.

Interpol operates in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, so I'm guessing that, to a Swede, English would be the display-language of choice. Put another way, English is the lingua franca - which actually leads to more hilarity, since the phrase itself is Italian, meaning "Frankish language". And the Franks weren't even French. They were a Germanic tribe.